[Noisebridge-discuss] Member shelf security

[Jake]

People already have the option of putting stuff in containers, if it fits.
People already have the option of putting locks on those containers, if 
they want to be assed with constantly locking and unlocking their cubbie 
every time they want to access a thing they are hacking on, or to get 
another part.

also, putting a lock on something marks it as valuable.  Maybe the theif 
will simply take the whole cubbie.  That would suck.  But they took the 
donation bin because they couldn't open it.

I think what we need is improved security at noisebridge.  We are looking 
into RFID tags but we should also do fun things to catch theives, like 
booby-trapped goodies on the member shelves.

If I am in the member shelves and I pick up an interesting item on someone 
else's shelf, and suddenly a siren and a flashing light goes off, and 
everyone comes to see what it was, and i'm trapped in the member shelves, 
i'll have to admit that i regularly look through other peoples stuff to 
see what they're hacking on (but not to take anything without permission)

if Joe Speedfreak from the mission is back there and the alarms go off, 
people will probably decide he has to leave and not let him in again.
He doesn't even have a reason to be back there.

We should also improve the wall at the end of the hacker alley, so that 
there is a more clearly defined line between general noisebridge and the 
proprietary member shelves.  For example, Harvey has some stuff on the 
floor next to the sewing machines, so we should build a shelf there so 
that he and Dan can store their stuff in a more conventional way.

And also, there is a lot of stuff back there that belongs to nobody, and 
is taking up a lot of space, and we should figure out how to reduce it.

-jake

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Robert Atkins <ratkins at fastmail.fm> 
wrote:

> I'm not a member. If I were visiting San Francisco for more than a 
> couple of months I would be. I think what you're all doing (and the 
> principles behind the way you're doing it) is excellent. You're all 
> awesome. Unsolicited observations follow.
>
> I would intuit that if the member shelves were populated with lidded 
> totes, the stuff in the totes would be dicked with rarely if at all. I 
> would say they wouldn't even need to be locked. In that kind of place, 
> the "affordance" of stuff being in a closed box would keep honest people 
> honest and anyone who was truly an asshole thief would defeat any 
> trivial security measure (like a lock) anyhow.
>
> The best part about this is, if you want your stuff on the member 
> shelves to be more secure, buy a tote with a lid and put your stuff in 
> there! If you don't care, don't. Radical self reliance FTW!
>
> Cheers, Robert.